This may seem like a no-brainer for anyone who’s been working with PC’s for a while, but because the Computer Industry has marketed and sold the most complex machines in the history of mankind as if they are consumer appliances, a surprising number of PC users don’t know how to do this basic configuration task. I felt a video and some training was needed. This post and video shows you just how simple it is to configure your PC to use a static IP address.

There are times when we want our computer to automatically come out of sleep mode to perform a function. In this case, I wanted my PC to wake up at 9:30 PM to run a ShadowProtect backup job. ShadowProtect won’t wake your computer from sleep, and many other programs and services can’t either. And though there are many different ways to do this, this video shows you how to do it simply by using the built in task scheduler to run a dummy batch file. Works like a charm.

In this video, Jerry Boutot shows you how to set up TeamViewer and your pc at home and at work so that you can allow the computers to go into sleep mode and wake them up remotely when needed using TeamViewer and the Wake On Lan feature.